January 17, 2008

As you may have read in our recent press announcement, Heroix has released two new Longitude versions. Some have asked what this means for the “old” Heroix Longitude, so I thought I’d offer a little background on each package. The software we know as Heroix Longitude is still alive and well, and is now called Longitude Enterprise Edition, reflecting its full coverage of application performance and network monitoring, with advanced features that facilitate IT monitoring and management in large enterprises. The two new versions — Longitude Standard Edition and Longitude Professional Edition — consist of selected features packaged and priced to meet the needs of smaller and mid-sized businesses.

Longitude Standard Edition provides out-of-the-box operating system and IT infrastructure monitoring that’s affordable for small to medium businesses; it covers Windows (including Server, XP, and Vista), RedHat and SuSE Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, VMware ESX, Cisco devices, and transactions. It features a web-based user interface, an event monitor for real time monitoring, proactive notification and corrective action, Windows Event Log consolidation, tailorable rules and thresholds, a real time statistics dashboard, and interactive reporting with built-in performance and event reports.